Roaches On A Plane

[marmar]

from Aviation Online:





November 14, 2011 - Charlotte based attorney Harry Marsh, and his fiancée, Kaitlin Rush a couple from North Carolina are suing AirTran Airways, in their suit they are claiming that the September 15th, Houston bound fight that they were on was infested with cockroaches.

Marsh and Rush claimed that cockroaches could be seen coming out of air vents and storage areas and when they confronted a flight attendant, the flight attendant placed her finger over her lips as if to say be quite. Marsh and Rush further claimed that the flight attendants ignored their concerns.

The couple reported that throughout the flight the cockroaches could be seen moving about. They are suing the airline for $100,000 plus the price of their ticket on the grounds of negligence, recklessness, intentional infliction of emotional distress, nuisance, fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices.

The couple further reported that they had to discard some of their belonging for fear of their clothing being contaminated with roaches and possibly roach eggs. Rush claimed that she became nauseous as well other passengers over the event and now does not want to fly again. Marsh and Rush took photos of the cockroach infestation and their ability to roam the aircraft. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://avstop.com/news_november_2011/couple_bound_for_houston_sues_airtran_airways_for_cockroach_infestation.htm

[arcane1]

1. I'm not sure what grosses me out more

the roaches, or that terribly-written article.

[Skittles]

4. I am increasingly seeing very poorly written articles

I'm convinced it is offshoring

[marmar]

7. In this case I think it's the publication.

Aviation Online features pretty pictures and bad writing.

[RufusTFirefly]

43. Sshhh! You be quite about that poor writing! n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

86. Looser!

lol

[XemaSab]

103. Offshoring is good article source

US newspapers get the great bargain there with much words for little price, yes?

[Mojorabbit]

32. The quiet /quite thing drives me crazy. nt

[newfie11]

2. For petes sakes

It a bug. They better never go to a 3rd world country. OH WAIT maybe its coming our way.

[marmar]

3. Hell, they better not go to Manhattan.

nt

[firehorse]

30. Exactly, roaches are easier to deal with than a seat full of bed bugs.

[Aerows]

66. You can keep your roaches

and your bed bugs.

I'll take neither. I would put up with fire ants, spiders and stink bugs before I'd put up with roaches. Yuck.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Especially a flight to Houston. If the plane is Houston based, I'm

not surprised. The termps make it perfect for roaches.

[txwhitedove]

63. Yep, really big flying cockroaches with attitudes!

[Catbird]

104. Actually, they have altitudes!

[nc4bo]

5. Don't know why everyone mad. They are Occupying da Plane!!

All jokes aside, that is just plain nasty and unhealthy!!

[LeftinOH]

8. Hmmph. Next time, fly on a name-brand airline. n/t

[KoKo]

13. It's a division of SouthWest Airlines.... but, won't be flying after 2012...n/t

[Ilsa]

27. I don't think that merger has been completed. At least, not in the

physical sense where such a problem could be corrected.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Wtf did they expect the flight attendants to do about it?

Start spraying RAID all over the place?

Use their shoes to squash the bugs so the roach guts could ooze down on the passengers?

Immediately land the plane and force everyone to go through hazmat decontamination?

They are suing the airline for $100,000 plus the price of their ticket on the grounds of negligence, recklessness, intentional infliction of emotional distress, nuisance, fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices

Roaches gross me out more than anything but this is one of the stupidest lawsuits I've ever heard of.

[dtexdem]

26. Well, here's a precedent:

"Everybody strap in!" (extracts his gun) "I'm about to open some f____n' windows."

;-)

[beam me up scottie]

29. LOL!

That must be why they arm the pilots now!

:rofl:

[Aerows]

64. LMAO!

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

100. ROFLMAO

[Cali_Democrat]

10. I absolutely cannot stand cockroaches

Mice? Rats? Spiders? No problem at all.

Cockroaches? They have gotta be the most disgusting creatures on the planet. They look all slimey and wet too.

[redwitch]

12. Spiders on a plane?

I would need a parachute STAT!

[JHB]

60. At least the spiders would eat the roaches. n/t

[Aerows]

65. Exactly

Love the spiders and the ants because they at least keep the roaches at bay.

[formercia]

36. Actually, Roaches are quite fastidious, They groom themselves often.

All I can say Lady: Welcome to the 99%

[Aerows]

54. Ewww

That's all I need, an image of a roach grooming itself like my cat does.

Ewww.

EWWWWWWWWW

[KoKo]

67. You sound like the guy who exterminates my house (outside) I keep him away from inside...who

just LOVES Cockroaches. He actually gave me a lecture about how clean they are and how "attentive they are to their children!"

BLECH...I've hated cockroaches since I was a kid in SC and late for school and put on my shoe from my closet and there was a SQUISH... Turns out a roach was in my shoe and I went screaming to my mother (I was 7 years old) and showed her the crushed thing all over my sock.

Many Southern born deal with the "Roach Problem"....but, I'm not one who was able to cope. I lived in the Northeast for over 20 years, btw, and never encountered one until I came back to the South in NC...and you've got to either buy the spray or have an exterminator.

My Exterminator...is a Friend to the Roaches.. It's led to interesting encounters in my horrible dislike of cochroaches between us. He hates me...but, I pay for his job...yet...I love his tender defense of the insects that I loath. Cochroaches to me are the only insect that I have a problem with..I LOVE SPIDERS!

[Aerows]

70. I'm Southern born

And clearly not able to cope, either. One got in my nightgown when I was a kid. I ran through the house shrieking like the devil, and when I threw off my clothes the damn thing was an inch and a half long.

I just shudder when I think about it.

[KoKo]

76. There are some big sucker cochroaches...so I have great sympathy with you ...For Sure!

Bad enough in my shoe...but, in my nightgown...I'd probably be on meds to this day over that traumatic experience. And...I'm very serious about this...!

[formercia]

85. Palmetto Bugs

they were used in the Movie'Men in Black'
Now, there's a cockroach.

[Aerows]

89. No, we aren't going to use a more palatable name

Cockroach. Not a "Palmetto bug" or something that sounds sweet - no. Cockroach.

[Aerows]

88. It was horrifying

I nearly had a heart attack. Thankfully, I now have two cats that prey on anything that moves so I don't have to be subjected to the horrors.

[Aerows]

97. I hate the surprise element

with roaches. You are minding your own business, and then, they just pop up, ruin your day, and scare the shit out of you.

[Aerows]

55. We must be twins

I can stand anything but a roach. I get hives just thinking about them.

[Downwinder]

11. I didn't think there was enough food on planes these days to keep

a roach alive.

[Sentath]

14. Why do you think

they were rummaging through the carryons?

[pinboy3niner]

17. Roaches LOVE carrion luggage

:)

[tkmorris]

21. Nice one!

[Aerows]

56. Yucky pun alert! n/t

[Aerows]

92. Leave it to pinboy3niner to make a good roach pun *smirk* n/t

[KoKo]

84. LOL's a good one!!!!

:rofl:

[wordpix]

94. Shakespeare would approve your double entendre :-)

[TygrBright]

15. DUzy!! n/t

[Aerows]

42. Even a roach wouldn't eat plane food these days n/t

[KoKo]

78. Thanks...that gave me a ROFL...and I need all humor I can get about"Roaches"

because I find them the most repulsive insects on Planet Earth. Yeah...I know they have their place and probably are good for the "ecosystem" since they've been around since prehistoric age...but, they are repulsive and disgusting! I wish I could learn to even believe they shouldn't be on the "endangered species list"....but I want them all dead. And...I'm kind of a pacifist by nature......

[Cassandra]

16. Roach eggs are pretty large...

and hard to miss.

[Aerows]

58. I swear, I'm going to faint

That is so gross - roach eggs.

:shudder:

YUCK

[KoKo]

69. and.....they "hide" in the folds of curtains and hatch out in unexpected ways and times....

:puke:

[Wait Wut]

18. I'd prefer the cochroaches in the pic...

...to the cockroaches taking the pic.

That "lawyer" and his wife just landed a prize fish.

[Recovered Repug]

19. They want $100k for roaches on the plane?

I guess that's fair, I bet Samuel L. Jackson got millions for "Snakes On A Plane".

[Major Nikon]

22. The guy is a lawyer

...and apparently one that feeds the notion that lawyers are scumbags.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. So how many cockroaches on the plane have passed the bar exam?

I'd guess at least one.

:hi:

[KoKo]

77. I'd want more than that if they caused me to go through X-Ray Scanners then I deal with Roaches?

This is too much. It's definitely Psychological Damage of the Highest Order!

[Berlin Expat]

20. Where's Samuel L. Jackson

when you need him?

I was in Uganda, and they've got some roaches I'd swear are the size of an airplane.

Roaches, spiders, snakes etc., don't bother me much. I do recall one time, however, finding an enormous garden spider tickling my nose one fine morning in Prague. That took me by surprise to say the very least.

And my ex-wife (Czech) was petrified about mice. One time I heard her scream from the kitchen, and when I came in there, she was standing on a chair (I kid you not) pointing at a mouse, yelling, "Kill it, kill it!" It got away naturally, so I laid out some traps, but I was laughing my ass off at the site of a grown woman, 5'11", being so utterly terrified of so tiny a creature. She was arachnophobic. too. That caused the humorous situation of her running out of the shower, dripping wet and stark naked, having the vapors about a spider in the shower that I'd say was less then 5 millimeters long. Hell, I didn't even see it at first, as it's color blended into the tiles!

The only creepy thing about spiders, I admit, is that you know when they're watching you with their eight little eyes. You can feel it. And if you look around, you'll usually find one up in the corner, thinking to itself, "I can take him."

[beam me up scottie]

24. I love jumping spiders.

They follow you with their eyes, like Praying Mantises do.

We kept one as a pet last winter (poor dude came up from the heating vent and it was too cold to relocate him outside) and he loved to watch tv.

[Aerows]

68. You haven't seen a roach in Key West, then

They are the size of an aircraft carrier. Throw a brick on them, and they just take it in stride, and keep crawling toward you.

[former9thward]

91. You are never more than 10 feet from a spider.

Whether inside your house or not. Of course many are fairly small. http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/spider-facts.htm

[dtexdem]

23. Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these ___ roaches on this ___ plane!

Hadda be said. ;-)

[Evasporque]

25. Gonna wear my shitkickers on my next flight...

gets um in the corners...ya know.


They are from Charlotte...the damn thing probably came on board with their carry on....lol

[Aerows]

61. I love my shitkickers

They are 16" and I'm a pretty tiny woman.

I wear them every chance I get :D

[Safetykitten]

28. That roach was flying first class.

[KoKo]

71. Well...the worst roaches are the ones that Fly in the Southeast US...

and, they are uncontrollable. They are the most feared by me. The flying ones... ugh!

[Aerows]

101. LMAO! n/t

[Safetykitten]

31. Have you ever had a roach crawl up your pants leg when sitting?

Not good. I stood up and dropped trou, right in the office.

[Downwinder]

34. Not as bad as fire ants.

[Aerows]

39. I love fire ants

Because they eat the things that keep roaches away.

I'd far rather be on a plane with fire ants than I would with roaches. OMG.

[RebelOne]

48. Yes. one time when I was driving. Nearly had a wreck. n/t

[Aerows]

79. Ewww

that's horrible, a roach in you car while you are driving?

Yuck with a capital.. Ewww.

[JI7]

35. why can't roaches go extinct ? it seems like this couple is just looking

to get some money.

[Aerows]

37. OMG my day just got worse!

I have a MAJOR roach phobia. I couldn't even imagine being stuck on a plane with a bunch of them, I'd have a heart attack.

I can handle snakes, spiders and mice but a roach? Holy ... no.

OMG.

[DocMac]

38. What is wrong with some of you people!!!

You prefer spiders to roaches????

When was the last time a roach has bitten you guys/gals???

Must be a disorder associated with democrats...lol.

[Aerows]

40. I prefer spiders

Roaches are awful, and attack you if you live in the South.

[DocMac]

45. I used to paint houses in Newport News VA.

I was painting the deck of a house and saw this spider about half the size of my middle finger.

I took my paint brush and painted the whole spider. The next day I was finishing up on the deck and there was that spider, ALIVE! So if you see a big grey spider...RUN!!!!

[Aerows]

53. I lived in Arizona for a while

They have HUGE hairy spiders. My mother took one out with a water gun and her shoe. I was five. It steeled my spine against spiders.

Roaches? Uh, no, scare the shit out of me.

[beam me up scottie]

46. In bootcamp one girl woke us up screaming like a banshee, a huge one had crawled onto her face.

I'm with you and I live with brown recluses.

It's a phobia.

[Raine]

51. I LOVE spiders but roaches

OH GOD :yoiks: I HATE HATE HATE them!!!!! :scared: :puke:

[shanti]

52. i'll keep my black widow spiders

over roaches any day! once you have roaches, it's almost impossible to get rid of them. when i was young and poor, i lived in several infested apts. thank god, i've had none in 15 years in my home now. i've seen lots of black widows around the perimeter of my house and have never been bitten. they don't jump on you and they're slow moving. i just squash them with something. spiders generally stay out of your way, roaches are nasty and carry diseases - yuch!

[beam me up scottie]

57. The best thing about spiders...

they EAT cockroaches.

Spiders don't eat humans and they don't want our potato chips, leave them alone and let them do their job, I say. :)

[shanti]

95. exactly!

:hi:

[malaise]

41. Ewwwwwwwww!

Disgusting

[Aerows]

44. I know, right?

Heebie jeebies from hell

[malaise]

59. Now I'll be looking for roaches on aircraft

Damn!

:hi:

[Aerows]

62. I know!

Good grief as though I didn't have enough to worry about.

:shudder:

[Downwinder]

72. Feeling better now?

[Aerows]

81. Not really, no

We are discussing roaches.

:shudder:

[Downwinder]

90. Sorry about that, just trying to cheer you up.

Roaches are repulsive but harmless. I dare say more people have been harmed by roach poison than by roaches.

[Aerows]

98. Thank you for trying to cheer me up

And you succeeded!

[tawadi]

47. Hell

She won't want to visit Asia then. lol

[Taverner]

49. Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these motherfuckin' roaches on this motherfuckin' plane!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

106. I was wondering who'd be the first.

:rofl:

[RebelOne]

50. When I lived in South Florida, I remember the Palmetto bugs

and they could fly. I lived in an apartment many years ago and they would dive bomb me. Really scary!!

[KoKo]

74. The South Tourist Business invented the name: "Palmetto Bugs" and there are

many very funny stories of folks buying condo's and such in the Southeast during the Real Estate Boom...who were over run with Roaches in their Condo's and Mansions and they were told by their Agent that they were just "Palmetto Bugs." :rofl:

I was on a web site that had jokes about RE Agents telling folks they were just "harmless Palmetto Bugs" when they were under pressure to do something about their screaming wives and children.

They thought they paid "Big Bucks" for "Paradise" ....but their floors were laden with dead roaches that their rental or property manager sent the exterminator in to euthanize...and they were ALL Freaking Out!

The stories were hysterically funny. But, I hate the damned roaches...and don't want to be in eyesite of one of them. It's almost a phobia!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

73. Like flying didn't freak me out enough before. Now I have to think about ROACHES!!??!

[JoePhilly]

75. They are getting valuable frequent roach miles!!

[KoKo]

80. Tuck in a "Discount Coupon" to your Fave Exterminator and there's Money to be Made there!

:eyes: If this is what would drive commerce these days.....I hate to think of what's next.

FLY US and get "FREE ROACH EXTERMINATOR CERTIFICATE"...Offer gives "One FREE EXTERMINATION" per CUSTOMER for LIMITED TRIAL OFFER!"

UGH!

[pinboy3niner]

82. Serves 'em right for not flying First Class...

...instead of Roach.

[KoKo]

96. Roaches aren't respectful of difference between the 1% and the 99%...

"First Class" doesn't matter to them. They can always find an "entry." That's what's so "EEEEK!!!" about them. And some of them FLY...and you never know when they are coming after you. Reminds me of Obama's warning to guys who might be interested in his daughters and he said: "Drones...you don't seem 'em...don't know when they're coming." That's what I feel about roaches.

Can you imagine a "Killer Roach Drone!" Sheesh...that'd be some big terrorist thing if they perfected it...!

[Aerows]

83. My cat just hauled in a rat

It was squirming all over the place with a broken back. I was not phased.

A roach showed up in my bathroom two days ago, and I nearly needed oxygen.

Major Roach Phobia.

[Liberal_in_LA]

87. roaches, preying mantis, grasshopper phobia here.

ugh

[drmeow]

93. Cockroaches

are my cats' absolute FAVORITE cat toys!

I once took the lint screen out of my dryer (one that is in the drum) and there was a cockroach on it. It ran into the dryer so I got my female cat and put her in the dryer. In no time she'd caught it and took it out of the dryer. She was not happy that I didn't let her play with it for an extended period of time.

[DRoseDARs]

99. They discarded their belongings? Were they afraid they'd contract Bug AIDS? Bug Herpes? Bug Lupus?

Sure, the situation was gross and unacceptable, but JESUS get a grip. It's called "washing your clothes" you might try it sometime, Harry and Kaitlin. :eyes:

[lonestarnot]

102. Or seal them in a plastic bag for shit sakes. Even roaches need to breath.

[NeedleCast]

105. This Is Why We Fail

100,000 dollars for emotional distress caused by having to be in the proximity of roaches for an hour or two. FFS. Yeah, it's gross and it should be brought to the attention of the airline so they can clean it up but the idea that you're so fragile that you'll never fly again because you saw a roach on a plane is just sad.

Fun science fact: No matter where you are, no matter what time of day it is, you are probably less than six feet from a spider. Good luck sleeping tonight.